"Who lazily imp their wings with other men's plumes, wherewith
they soar high in common esteeme, yet have not the ingenuity
with that son of the Prophet to confesse, Alasse! it was
borrowed."

A.B.R.

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QUERIES UPON CUNNINGHAM'S HANDBOOK OF LONDON.

We promised to make a few QUERIES on this amusing volume, and thus
redeem our promise.

Mr. Cunningham has been the first to point out the precise situation of
a spot often mentioned by our old dramatists, which had baffled the
ingenuity of Gifford, Dyce, and in fact of all the commentators,--the
notorious Picthatch. He thus describes it:--

"_Picthatch_, or Pickehatch.--A famous receptacle for
prostitutes and pickpockets, generally supposed to have been in
_Turnmill Street_, near Clerkenwell Green, but its position is
determined by a grant of the 33rd of Queen Elizabeth, and a
survey of 1649. What was